Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-22
THE CHARTER.
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Letters were received yesterday IRON
CITY Attorney DAILY and Mr.. B. Conn.,
-embers of the committee recently sent
m Sacramento. to further the passage OF
. charter for cities of the class OF Los
Angeles. There seems to be h'.ie
chance for the charter, as adopted oy
the City Council, as Oakland objects to
uanv sections of it. Mr.. DAILY, in ms
lett.r. saws: "The committee will aban
don the charter question, and push Tor
= constitutional amendment. allowing
speoial le gislation for municipal corpora
tion.. and MS relief measure endeavor
10 have passed a general law permitting
c;,;es to issue bonds for extra and press
ing improvements. We will allow Oak
l.nd TO amend the charter now under
consideration, so that it will meet the
v,n,s of that city, without regard to
J.os Anceles. Vrooman will then sup
nort our bill. This is the best we can
40 under the circumstances, and the
time for work is very short.
Mr.. b. Cohu writes the following let.
Ear 60 MIR. Thomas Goss, President OF
tho Board of Public Works:
SACRAMENTO f February IS. 1857.
Thomas Goss, Chairman Board OF Fuo
lic Works.
Iarrived here Friday evenin g after a
yery hard trip and at once went to work,
and. in short, see a very poor prospect
to have any relief granted about new
charter. as Oakland will consent to MOTH
ing except what they really want; IN
TACT. they say that the new proposed
charter is already burdened with a good
MANY things that are solely for Los An
velss, and would prefer to have every
thing stricken therefrom.
We have arranged for meeting at
r. NJ, this day, to see whether we can
yet = constitutional amendment allowing
cities of &c, 900 and upwards to make
charter to suit themselves, and as there
Ia n disposition among the Senators to
change our Supreme Court and submit
the amendment in the month of April at
n special election, we will try 20 get this
matter also inserted to come up then.
There ia also some work done here by
your City Board of Education, through
Assemblymau Briefly, to allow tue Soard
TO issue bonds for building school houses
Independent: of the Council, which is the
Legislative body OF your city. They de.
sire to post notices in three places ana
TO have such people vote for 1t as are
favorably disposed to the matter OF car
rying out their desire, and thus oppose
anyslipg that does not suit the school
ring. In that case they will be satisfied.
Isend You q copy of the charter offered
~ q substitute, with amendments which
Twill insert, and note same now with
pencil m arks. You can then Judge fol
yourselves. By all means let Jones and
Breed see it and have their opinion Oh
it. Wednesday next it may come ul
before the Legislature, and very LITTLE
time is to be lost. We will try to get
relief bill for Los Angeles, but we hav'
very little show to pass it. White ant
Rose will assist, ard Vrooman agrees t
help us, as also some Senators from Oak
iaud and San Jose, i'll passing bill VIII
the privilege to issue bonds tor sewers
street improvements ana Wa'er' 10 sao
init the question to the people to vote
and at the same election to vote on
Board of Public Works of three Commits
sioners to handle the money realizes
from the sale of bonds and see that III
money is invested as intended, the CON
mission to draw salary only whe
actual works have been commenced, am
hold office during the time the work
are being done, and their term expire
when the works are finished. This sam
rule is to apply to every election TO
bonds. Ssch bill we may succeed Ii
Obtaining, but nothing else.
With best regards l am, yours, mos
obedient. B. COIN.
The charter and amendments to which
Mr.. Cohn refers in his letter had no
arrived yesterday but will probably b'
here to day.